Chaucer.
In the Greek poets, . . . the economy of poems is better observed than
in Terence, who thought the sole grace and virtue of their fable the
sticking in of sentences.
B. Jonson.
5. Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character; purity of
soul; performance of duty.
Virtue only makes our bliss below.
Pope.
If there's Power above us, And that there is all nature cries aloud
Through all her works, he must delight in virtue.
Addison.
6. A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of temperance, of
charity, etc. "The very virtue of compassion." Shak. "Remember all his
virtues." Addison.
7. Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity of women;
virginity.
H. I believe the girl has virtue. M. And if she has, I should be the
last man in the world to attempt to corrupt it.
Goldsmith.